Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko (Feb 8, 1999 prototype)
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A prototype of Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko for the PlayStation.
Notes
The Cutting Room Floor research
== GLOBAL CHANGES (see in every level) ==
- Alfred is always inside his shell; upon tail-whacking him, the shell spins around, and then he slowly emerges from it; after talking to Gex, he instantly disappears again, leaving just the shell. In the final, Alfred is always standing in-place
- Whenever a vending-machine is featured, they are red in this build, not purple, as they are in the final
== HUBS ==
Mission Control (GEXCAVE6)
- Near the gym area, to the left of the weights, is a cracked wall: behind it is a TV with a blue logo called "Spacestation Rez", not seen in the final game. Entering the TV only takes you to the regular "Dial A for Arson" stage, however
- In the room with the "Clue TV", there is no bust to open the bookcase to the Bonus TV (however, that TV still exists)
Training - Wreck Room (in GEXCAVE6)
- Alfred does not greet you in the first room (with the Gex head); the head opens simply by standing on the platform
- The order of the rooms is different: jump > tail-bounce > tail-whack > karate-kick. In the final, the order is: tail-whack > jump > tail-bounce > karate-kick
- The tail-bounce room platforms don't work; and if you tail-whack Alfred, the camera pans back to the previous room
- Alfred has no dialog in the "tail-whack those hideous dummies" room
- None of the dummies in that room move, and "HANK IS FEEBLE MINDED!!!!!!!" is displayed six-times in the top-left
- The karate-kick/long-jump room cannot be completed normally as Alfred does not exist, so the first platform never spawns
- There is no remote or teleport at the end of the karate-kick/long-jump room to allow you to exit
- The exit to each room is not covered by a rock (which explodes in the final, each time you complete that room's objective)
Lake Flaccid (GEXCAVE5)
- The hole in the wall, leading back to the Mission Control hub, does not have the "Return to Mission Control" banner under it
- The green locker (leading to the boss TV) has no door, whereas a door must be tail-whacked off it in the final
- The bonus stage in the Pirate area is not behind a gate; and the switch to open the gate doesn't exist (though the platform where it would be does, though there is no sticky-wall leading to it)
- In the War area, the Bonus TV is a below-ground area with a climbable-wall to return to the main area; in the final, this is still in an extra room, but the room is on the same level as the War is Heck stage TV
- The small cave near the oil-drill, where you get a Bonus coin in the final game, has no back and Gex can fall out of the stage
Slappey Valley (GEXCAVE7)
- The infamous Western town stage (A Fist Full of Geckos), deleted in the final, would have been entered here, as a themed entrance for it exists; however, entering the door simply causes Gex to fall-through the stage as no warp exists
- The Secret TV in the water-area (on the path leading up to the Beanstalk level) does not exist
- The warps to and from the anime-themed level have no effect when Gex stands on them; you just instantly warp
- The enemies in the area where the anime TV is are untextured, purple objects
- The Boss TV (Lizard of Oz) is locked behind a gate, and displays random screens in a loop
Funky Town (GEXCAVE8)
- You begin the area wearing the orange superhero costume
- None of the caged-off areas in the brick-tunnel at the start contain anything; in the final, they contain boxes that can only be smashed while wearing the blue superhero costume, and one Bonus coin per-area
- No costume-change cubicles exist
- The "lunch area", which in the final game contains the TV to the final boss, Rez, is locked behind a gate
- Inside that area, the red-lights do not rotate; the rocket thrusts are not animated; and the TV is not present in the area
== REGULAR LEVELS ==
Totally Scrooged (SNOW96)
- No major changes, though the moving ski-lift seen in the previous beta has been removed here (in the final room, where Gex whacks five elves while on a snowboard; the ski-lift is also not-present in the final)
Clueless In Seattle (CLUE1)
- Alfred sometimes offers the opening line: "M'laud, search the maze for a secret bust" which I believe isn't said in the final
- The walking-oven enemy in the kitchen, seen in the previous beta, isn't present (nor is it in the final)
- Only the kill-the-fleas-on-the-bear-head mini-game works; the sink/bubbles and pool-table/pool-balls don't
- Alfred does not appear in the swimming-pool room to explain the swimming-controls to the player
- In the room with the pool-table, the bare-ass mounted on the wall (behind the Gex painting, which opens if you tail-whack the six TVs behind the mini-bar) has a tattoo titled "Bulldog", not "Rosebud" as in the final
Holy Moses! (EGYPT01)
- All sand in this level hurts Gex, and causes him to repeatedly be thrown upwards off it (similar to when you run into fire or lava); in the final, sand causes no damage, but severley slows you down while in it
- In the second main area (after you go-over the blue warp-bridge), the fire-traps that come out of each pit feature four flames: two pairs, each of which overlap as they rotate. In the final, each pit simply contains a single flame that rotates in a circle
- The bug that Gex has to spit fire at, to reveal some platforms, has a shiny, reflective shell
- At the top of the tallest-room with the climbable sections, the alcoves behind Gex each contain one coinfly, as does the furthest side; in the final, each alcove contains a single purple TV (a new life), and the furthest-side contains nothing
- For the challenge where you have to recover the three staffs, the final tornado-mummy is located on the main path, near the green portaloo; in the final, you have to enter the nearby crack in the wall to a secret room to find it. In this build, that secret room just contains four coinfly and one pawprint-token
The Organ Trail (GTOWN2)
- The donkey cannot perform the headbutt move while moving, only when stationary
- It's possible to get stuck clipped-inside Alfred's shell while riding the donkey
Cutcheese Island (PIRATE45)
- No major differences observed
War is Heck (WAR01)
- All of the searchlights must be destroyed before any of the doors to new areas will open: the gates to the tank-area; the door to Hut 1; and the door to the Combat Maze. In the final, all open whenever Gex approaches
- The crates in the tank-area cannot be ran-over while in the tank; Gex must exit the tank and tail-whack or tail-bounce each one
- In the hut at the end of the Combat Maze, the briefcase on the table with Rez's head, rotates; it is static in the final
- In the tank-area, three buildings have logos on them: "Ristorante", "Patton's General Store" and "DMZ Cafe". No building features a logo in the final
Unsolved Mythstories (MYTH2)
- No major differences observed
When Sushi Goes Bad (ANIME1)
- All of the TVs start with a transparent screen (you can see the walls of the stage through the screen area)
Red Riding in the Hood (BEANE1)
- No major differences observed
== N64 Levels ==
- None of the levels in the "N64 Levels" menu (MTYH3; FVILLA1; WATER15; JAWS1; SPIDER01; PUSH44; PROTO55; PIRATE88) do anything in this build; if accessing them is attempted from within a level, a loading-screen with "TOTALLY SCROOGED" at the bottom will appear, but never completes; if attempted from one of the Hub areas, a blank-screen may instead be seen, which again, never completes loading
Notes
- Pressing Start+Up activates movement debug and Start+Down disables it
- Pressing select during gameplay opens the debug menu
- The debug menu lists the N64 levels but they're not present in the files
- The n64 level select menu also lists a level called "proto55" which is not listed in the december build, most likley another cut level
- Levels were supposed to play a cutscene when completing them however all videos in this build are placeholders
- Gex has unique idle animations for some levels, a feature not present in the final version
- The loading screen used in this build can also be seen in the released demo version
- Options screen looks different
- Level completition screens looks slightly different
- The debug menu still uses the Gex 2 font
- Remotes from Gex 2 are still used
- Many levels have no music or use placeholder music from Gex 2
- Starts with a somehwat early menu level that still uses Gex 2 placeholder music
- Before gameplay the game will start with a unfinished intro cutscene that will not play correctly due to a bug in the code
- If extracted it will reveal to be the full cutscene without music or sound effects
- The hub uses the theme from City1
- Under the map of starting hub area the cage is still present from the december build and also on the outside is a platform
- A cut transition room is present before entering Lake Flaccid
- The tutorial rooms are incomplete
- Gtown1 was still part of the game and the mission objectives were actually fixed over the december build among other changes
- In the second hub the Gtown1 entrance has been worked on even further than seen in the december build
- Gtown2 still uses the old sombrero costume
- If one completes Gtown2 and goes to the tv exit, it will reveal to use actual concept art as the tv image
- The hub levels are all present in various stages of completition
- In Egypt1 the spider is a fully textured 3D object instead of a 2D image
- Spacestation REZ has a cut TV picture which is also seen in the french N64 version
- While the rest of the endboss level is present, it skips straight to the final part
- Going out of map reveals that the airship from the menu level is present
- In the Oz boss level the canon still uses a laser
- The TV object looks different
- You play as Cuz in the level "Cheesy Rider"
- Music in the winter level is slightly different
- The themes of the Myth level are slightly different
- The boss theme uses a few different instruments
- Miscellaneous Notes:
- Game is emulatable: Yes (as of April 17, 2021).
- Game contains dongle protection: No.
- Game contains debugging symbols: No
- Dump was originally scrambled: No
Screenshots
Origin
Disc front.
Files
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| PSX - Gex 3 2-8-99.cue | File | 2020-12-13 04:52:32 | 82 bytes | c60cf95ea6b57c25c69c0b6e0c0eab8c530da7b9 |
| PSX - Gex 3 2-8-99.ccd | File | 2020-12-13 04:52:32 | 773 bytes | 71612e59fe99757b3d54c77a64df5ad85e56fa60 |
| PSX - Gex 3 2-8-99.sub | File | 2020-12-13 04:55:27 | 10.03 MB | 2552ecbf9933d0973d548f6937d4529ab03ed7aa |
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Acknowledgments
A huge thanks to Nex, SolidSnake11 for doing the initial research on this prototype!